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NOOO. Science, Technics, Engineering, Math. The M is not for Medicine

• diffeomorphism 7y ago
  But science includes biology, chemistry, pharmacy and medical research (e.g. molecular biology, neurology,...). So just because it is not the M does not say it is not part of STEM. Actually, I am unsure how country specific this is and where to put medicine with respect to hard sciences, soft sciences, social sciences etc.
  • bakuninsbart 7y ago
    > Actually, I am unsure how country specific It is kind of hilarious how different this works in a lot of countries. For example in German, the translation of science is 'Wissenschaft'. It would literally translate to "the thing you do to make knowledge". Humanities are called 'Geistes'wissenschaft and Law is called 'Rechts'wissenschaft'. Math is generally considered to be part of the humanities, and CS is usually either part of the math-department or very closely settled to the engineering department. There's many more differences between the german and anglo academic culture, let alone all the other ones out there.
    • diffeomorphism 7y ago
      > Math is generally considered to be part of the humanities Hm, not always. In my experience it was a B.Sc., M. Sc. and Dr. rer. nat. and in the math-nat department, but it can also be associated with philosophy and of course there is no scientific method in math. For medicine you also have the (again country specific?) question whether a medical doctorate is comparable to a hard science one, e.g. for the purpose of grants in medical research.
• reroute1 7y ago
  Let's think liberally and not confine this concept to a strict acronym that seems overly narrow
• cortesoft 7y ago
  I would think medicine falls under the science category.